A short amino-terminal part of Arabidopsis phytochrome a induces constitutive photomorphogenic response

Molecular Plant

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 629-641

  Viczián, András ^a   Ádám, Éva ^a   Wolf, Iris ^b   Bindics, János ^a,b   Kircher, Stefan ^b   Heijde, Marc ^c   Ulm, Roman ^c   Schäfer, Eberhard ^b   Nagy, Ferenc ^a,d  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arabidopsis; cop phenotype; COP1; phytochrome A

Indexed keywords

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

EID: 84861367465     PISSN: 16742052     EISSN: 17529867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/mp/sss035     Document Type: Article

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